I have always been a light sleeper and can be in bed for 10 hours a night and still wake up exhausted and need to nap during the day. I finally went off to a sleep therapist, got a test, I have sleep apnea. I've been trialling CPAP for two weeks and its made the biggest improvement in my energy, ale...

Hi there Naffa. I realise this is an old thread now but did you manage to find any viable solution to bikepacking with your condition? I too have just discovered I need to sleep with CPAP, although my sleep apnea is not as severe as yours. My research on portable equipment seems its a bit more promi...

I remember reading this article a while back, yes OK its Bike Radar but not everything on these big corporate websites is necessarily bullshit: https://www.bikeradar.com/features/protect-yourself-against-the-wind-not-the-rain/ Basically saying not to worry about getting wet from rain, but a lightwei...

About 8 months ago I decided to avoid eating anything with added sugar and caffeine mostly because I was struggling with energy levels and falling asleep pretty much every day at my desk. I wanted to see if cleaning up my diet would make a difference. For the first couple of months I could barely ri...

Since we are talking about using different tyre widths front and back, what about some more radical options like different wheel sizes back and front as a way to get the best of some other worlds. For example 27.5 x 2.8 rear for the plushness and grip of seated pedaling, and 29 x 2.4 on the front wi...

I agree that there is an issue with the relatively recent explosion of popularity with recreational road cycling. You get newbies going straight to road bikes with their other newbie mates and haven't joined a club or experienced bunch ride to learn the ropes. Here in Australia even with all of our ...

Hi I'm new around here, so forgive me if I sound out of line, but you guys really don't seem to take this bikepacking business very seriously. Now the gentlemen over at bikepacking.net they know how to pay appropriate respect to this noble past time. You won't see pictures of grown men in their pant...

Ah this made my day reading this. I pretty much only registered with this forum so that I could express my appreciation for this discussion. The whole commercialisation and branding of this activity of riding long distances with things strapped to your bike does rile me a bit because probably like a...